Occupation novelist Role Novelist Nationality American Spouse Tommie Duncan (m. 1959) | Relatives 11 siblings Name Terry Kay | |
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Notable awards Townsend PrizeGeorgia Author of the YearSouthern Emmy AwardAppalachian Heritage Writers Award Movies To Dance with the White Dog, The Valley of Light Children Jon Kay, Scott Kay, Heather Flury Kay, Terri Kerr Kay Books To Dance with the White Dog, The Book of Marie, The year the lights came on, Shadow Song, The valley of light Similar People Jon Kay, Glenn Jordan, Susan Cooper |
Georgia writers hall of fame interviews terry kay
Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Royston, Georgia, is a novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.
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- Georgia writers hall of fame interviews terry kay
- Author terry kay on writing the book of marie
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Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He won a Southern Emmy Award in 1990 for his teleplay, Run Down the Rabbit and received the 2006 Appalachian Heritage Writers Award. He has books translated in Japanese, Chinese, French and Greek.

Kay lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife. He has 4 children (Jon Kay, Terri Kerr, Scott Kay, Heather Flury).

Author terry kay on writing the book of marie
